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Those cards weren't giveaways, Belmar attendees

From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. this past Wednesday, The Lab at Belmar hosted opening-night festivities in honor of new exhibitions entitled "The Astounding Problem of Andrew Novick" and "Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics." Unfortunately, some valuable items walked away along with ... More >>

Updated: Adam Lerner to replace Cydney Payton as executive director of MCA Denver

MCA Denver. Update below: According to reliable sources, MCA Denver will soon announce that Adam Lerner, the director of the Lab at Belmar, is to be hired as its new executive director. The MCA is supposed to have mounted an international search, so it does seem strange that the institution wound ... More >>

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Deborah Leebove, cook-off competitor. Hungry? Today in Cafe Society: • Manischewitz! Denverite competes in national cook-off. • Cafe Bites bites into Mardi Gras. • The List: Eating good in the neighborhood. • AJ's Super Bowl run through LoDo. • Organixx is greener than a Prius -- let's h ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Another contemporary art treasure in Denver

Michael Paglia posted the news first: Adam Lerner, head of the Laboratory of Art and Ideas in Lakewood, will take over as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, replacing Cydney Payton, who exited last fall. And that's not all: In revealing the hire yesterday, the MCA board also annou ... More >>

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Layoffs at the Lab and MCA: Job losses in the wake of Adam Lerner appointment

MCA Denver. Mark Falcone, head of the board at MCA Denver and the founder, former board chairman and current boardmember of the Lab at Belmar, is apparently running both not-for-profit institutions as though they were his own private business interests -- which they are not. With the announcement t ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, March 16 edition

Photo by Chad FahnestockThe Pirate Signal wants to be heard. Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: The Pirate Signal at the Marquis Theater. • Over the Weekend: Cut Copy at the Bluebird Theater. Today in Cafe Society: • Aw, shucks: Jax kicks off oyster week in Denver. • Kevin Taylo ... More >>

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Bedroom Eyes

The Lab at Belmar goes behind closed doors with art meant to be restful.

Collective Items

The Lab at Belmar goes behind closed doors with art meant to be restful.

Sketches

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Beautiful Failures

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Far and Wide

MCA Denver takes on Chinese Art, while the Lab looks at rural America.

Thrift Store Art

Two new exhibits spice up the Lab.

Good Chemistry

Two new exhibits spice up the Lab.

Hit Singles

Linda, Weekend in So Show and Fade, Denver each prove that one powerful piece can rise above the noise.

Sketches

Brief reviews of current shows

Sketches

Brief reviews of current shows

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Brief reviews of current shows

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Brief reviews of current shows

Sketches

Brief reviews of current shows

Fantôme Afrique

Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar

Cirque du Something

The Secret Circus brings in the (offbeat) clowns.

Wiccan Win!

Witches take the stage to help beat Bush

Double Treat

Lectures on Unrelated Topics fire up listeners' brains

Seen and Unseen

The Bruce Nauman solo at the DAM is filled with contradictions.

Making the Grade

The Bruce Nauman solo at the DAM is filled with contradictions.

New Look

The Bruce Nauman solo at the DAM is filled with contradictions.

Looking for the Face is Adam Lerner's first exhibit at MCA Denver

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The Bruce Nauman solo at the DAM is filled with contradictions.

Rising Stars

The Bruce Nauman solo at the DAM is filled with contradictions.

Art Power

The Bruce Nauman solo at the DAM is filled with contradictions.

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Art Meets Beast, round one: Buffalo Bill and the cave paintings

​"What we eat is an expression of who we are," said Adam Lerner, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, by way of introducing the first session in the three-day Art Meets Beast project. "Food is our most immediate introduction to culture." And there was plenty of food for thought ... More >>

Mixed Taste on Ice kicks off at MCA

​The Museum of Contemporary Art's wildly popular Mixed Taste series kicked off its first ever Winter series on Friday. For the uninitiated: MCA Denver invites two speakers on unrelated subjects to lecture for twenty minutes separately and then answer audience questions jointly. This week's jux ... More >>

Lights Out

​The Museum of Contemporary Art's wildly popular Mixed Taste series kicked off its first ever Winter series on Friday. For the uninitiated: MCA Denver invites two speakers on unrelated subjects to lecture for twenty minutes separately and then answer audience questions jointly. This week's jux ... More >>

The MCA trumps logistics to present an intriguing group exhibit

​The Museum of Contemporary Art's wildly popular Mixed Taste series kicked off its first ever Winter series on Friday. For the uninitiated: MCA Denver invites two speakers on unrelated subjects to lecture for twenty minutes separately and then answer audience questions jointly. This week's jux ... More >>

Lines and Whispers

​The Museum of Contemporary Art's wildly popular Mixed Taste series kicked off its first ever Winter series on Friday. For the uninitiated: MCA Denver invites two speakers on unrelated subjects to lecture for twenty minutes separately and then answer audience questions jointly. This week's jux ... More >>

West of Center is more a cultural documentary than an art show

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Find the counterculture at MCA Denver's West of Center

The Ultimate Painting, a collaborative work between Clark Richert, Richard Kallweit, JoAnn Bernofsky, Gene Bernofsky and Charles DiJulio.​Though not part of an ambitious series of events like Pacific Standard Time, our own MCA Denver is participating in the same zeitgeist anyway, with West of ... More >>